Can you help to identify these frames, bikes or parts?

Hey guys,

I am wondering if you could identify this frame for me. I was going to consider buying it. I saw someone said that there were lots of different models all of different qualities, and that there were threads about identifying these bikes.
I have yet to have found them.

Also I was wondering, is this frame worth £45?

Team Banana Falcon frame

Thanks

Looks very much like a cheapy: dropouts look to be stamped not forged, and the suicide levers were only usually specced on low-end bikes. That being the case, you could certainly get a nicer frame for the money.

It looks like an engagement ring from QBP

lol, cheers! Now you've said its a 'Q' its obvious, can't believe I didn't figure before.

Sugino triple crankset. 26/36/46 rings and 'E7' stamped on them, so I guess they are 'E-7's"? But I can't find anything about them, guess there is a proper name for them.

By chance stumbled upon someone asking how to dismantle TA cyclotourists, and then figured these look exactly the same (infact I think my inner rings are marked TA), then looked them up, and they appear to be 'Sugino PX' which are apparently fairly decent copies of TA cyclotourists. So sort of answered that one. The other two items are still a mystery to me though.

can anyone place the frame - should be mercian or bob jackson - can anyone confirm before i spend 25 quid for BJ to look through their files, i've e-mailed mercian - would just like to confirm identity for sale soon. i've posted pics here:

http://www.lfgss.com/post2830638-4.html

@ brickman yes i had some of those sugino PX - better than the ta / stronglight - no front mech issues, will take a standard extractor - nicely made and will polish to a mirror shine . bolts probably better too. short lived no doubt as they are obsolete BCD pattern . the stronglights you have are just good road cranks - let down by rarish BCD size - will be 118 or 122. get rid before the rings wear out. only SR and SL made that size and not for that long. G8 won't mean that much - the left crank was common to a few different styles - including the cheaper solida stuff

^ Don't think that's a bob Jackson.

Mine's 4854 from 1964. There's more frame numbers here - http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-445346.html
My guess is that Bob Jackson #5097 came out in 1965, '66 at the latest.

To my eye, your fork crown and cable routing look much newer - '80s at least....

What makes you think it's a Jackson
Can't really see the seatlug - are the stays wrapover - that's usually a good place to start....

Looks very much like a cheapy: dropouts look to be stamped not forged, and the suicide levers were only usually specced on low-end bikes. That being the case, you could certainly get a nicer frame for the money.

Ahh thanks a lot buddy.

hmmm. the bob jackosn guy thought it would b c. late 70s on that number, but i'm not paying 25 quid for a 'build report'. to me it looks early to mid 80s too. it could have had bits added later. no wrapover stays - the 'cinelli style' crown came out ages before the 80s i've had 60s pennines with them on for a start.

can anyone place the frame - should be mercian or bob jackson - can anyone confirm before i spend 25 quid for BJ to look through their files, i've e-mailed mercian - would just like to confirm identity for sale soon. i've posted pics here:

http://www.lfgss.com/post2830638-4.html

@ brickman yes i had some of those sugino PX - better than the ta / stronglight - no front mech issues, will take a standard extractor - nicely made and will polish to a mirror shine . bolts probably better too. short lived no doubt as they are obsolete BCD pattern . the stronglights you have are just good road cranks - let down by rarish BCD size - will be 118 or 122. get rid before the rings wear out. only SR and SL made that size and not for that long. G8 won't mean that much - the left crank was common to a few different styles - including the cheaper solida stuff

Cheers!
Yeah BCD worried me a bit, but they have plenty plenty on them so not a worry, and I think you would struggle to buy what Greggs call a pasty for what I paid for them and the other cranks. I love the north :) Iv'e rescued stuff from bike shop scrap boxes that is in v.good/ nearly NOS condition lol.
I guess g8 might be a date stamp/batch number.

£25 is a bit of cheek. I just emailed them, then rang them about that and getting a sample of paint, and got loads of info besides the order card.
guess since they've 'restructured', closed the shop and gone all weird, they've needed a bit extra cash.

Just bought this from Primitive Robot

The frame says Alec Bird but the lugs are Carlton Capella.

Is it an AB or a rebadged Carlton or a frame built by someone else?

Stamped on the BB shell is EO 529 been told EO were a make of BB shell.

All i know is Capella lugs stopped being used by Carlton in 1966 and Carlton closed in 1981.....Dave Marsh does not think it is a Carlton but i'm sending him some pics for him to ponder.......the 531 decal on the frame [using Nick Lloyds 531 decal timeline] date from at least 1984.

Conservative_values had this frame until 2010 [i have sent him a pm with loads of questions]...but he said on the 2010 thread ' recently resprayed'......so more likely [i believe] to be a sympathetic renovation than a respray and rebadge job.

AB or not AB?.....If not AB....What?

Looking at the seat stays / seat pin cluster I'd definitely say it's not a Carlton. Awesome frame though, I love Capella lugs. I got a set off ebay a few months ago on a whim for an as yet unplanned very much in the future custom build.

That is very, very nice Leon!

Got a few things I'm not sure on at the mo...

Campag front hub, its a shield logo so guess its mid-80s onwards, but no idea other than that! rear of the pair is a miche O_o

Anyone know what these hubs are? i've got a pair very similar and i 'aint sure myself...

Hi

Can anybody please identify this frame, its a challenge hurricane, pics to follow.

Thanks

Mike

^ If you know it's a Challenger Hurricane, it looks like you may have already cracked the case Mike. Well done you.

magpies you misunderstood its actually a whirlwind of a challenge to discover what the frame is.

I know what the frame is, im just after a few more specifics (year, material etc) still trying to get pics up

Mike

Can anyone help me identify this frame?
Any help would be much appreciated.

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in milano i was given a old lugged steel frame, maybe mid 70's, the markings are very typical of a milanese racer. all the lettering has been rubbed off, but there's a faded sun shadow where the brand was on the down tube. it seems to say 'supeza' or similar. does anyone know more about this?

also i came across a frame for the dutch bike shop i did some work for. it is a racer, possibly dutch (it came from holland), has only the name 'mann' on it apart from a dutch bike shop sticker. it is beautiful 70's lugged steel frame, bright orange with silver lugs.

if anyone has any clues i'd be grateful, especially about the supeza(?) as i have been thousands of miles accross europe and britain on that bike and i love it.

cheers

Can anyone identify the logo on this stem? Cheers

Anyone know what these hubs are? i've got a pair very similar and i 'aint sure myself...

Is it not just a 1st gen chorus?

Apart from being covered in shit, anyone know what model it is?

Isnt there often a number etc on the back side of the crankarms??? Try that....

Maybe mix of 89/90 Athena and Euclid?

http://campybike.com/ClassicEra.htm

Could be Veloce, kinda looks similar to one I had.

I'm after a replacement freehub for a set of old Campag Ventos. I'm not sure of the year, I'm guessing around early 90's? I bought a new ITM freehub off ebay, but it's about half a millimetre too wide. You can see it against the orignal part in the second and third photos. (ITM on the left, original on the right)

LBS doesn't stock campag parts, Evans' supplier only stocks recent parts. I've trawled ebay for a couple of weeks and found nothing suitable. At this point I'd even consider replacing the hub, though I can't seem to find one with 20 holes! Please help!!